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Republishing guidelines

Steal our articles (no, really)

Rather than charge you for our content, we believe in a free flow of information. So unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles online or in print for free. You just have to credit us and link to us, and you can’t edit our material or sell it separately.

Using the “republish” button that accompanies every article is the easiest way to meet our guidelines, which are as follows.

Republishing guidelines, for print and online

Unless you have express permission from the author, you can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, "yesterday" can be changed to "last week," and "Canberra, ACT." to "Canberra" or "here"). If you need to materially edit our content, please contact our External Relations Manager.

You have to credit our authors and partner institutions — ideally in the byline. We prefer “Author Name, Institution” (for example, John Smith, Australian National University).

You have to credit The Conversation — ideally at the top of the article and include our logo — with a link back to either our home page, The Conversation, or (preferably) the specific article URL on The Conversation website.

If space is tight, you can run the first few lines of the article and then say: “Read the full article on The Conversation” with a link back to the article page on our site.

If you’re republishing online, you must use our page view counter, link to us, and include links from our story. Our page view counter is a small pixel-ping image (invisible to the eye) that allows us to know when our content is republished, and gives our authors sense of the size of audience and which publications they’re reaching. It is a condition of our guidelines that you include our counter. If you use the “republish” button that accompanies each article then you’ll capture our page counter.

Links to other websites

The Conversation may contain links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you. We have no control over these other sites or their content. You should be aware when you leave The Conversation for another site, and remember that other sites are governed by their own user agreements and privacy policies, which you should read.